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Team researcher and mid-term evaluator of the UNCDF (United Nations Capital Development Fund) "Migration and Remittances Programme"

Italy, Peru, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Lebanon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cape Vert

CeSPI is a research institute established in 1985 and based in Rome, carrying out policy-oriented studies and activities in the field of research, consultancy, training and communication on key issues of international relations, international development and cooperation and international migrations and migratory policies. My Work responsibilities include.

Italy/Juba

Within the framework of “Enhancing Knowledge on Remittances and Diaspora Engagement in South Sudan” funded by the IOM-International Development Fund (IDF), IOM South Sudan is conducting a study on remittance flows and development opportunities, with a focus on the South Sudanese diaspora in Australia. Research is undertaken with desk analysis and field.

Within the Rabat Process and under the support of the Rabat Process Secretariat, innovative diaspora engagement initiatives had been identified, as good practices to be adopted or replicated. The work included desk analysis and interviews with key persons in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Europe.

Senior researcher and coordinator within the association Sunugal for an IOM/the Global Mechanism study directed at mapping the competences of the Senegalese diaspora in Italy to enhance and give value to temporary/permanent return investments in the homeland, within the project “Afrique de l’Ouest: Promouvoir une gestion soutenable de la terre en des zones.

Italy, Denmark, Somaliland

Experienced evaluator for mid-term evaluation of the Danida funded project entitled "Diaspora Programme – Diaspora-driven Relief, Rehabilitation and Development". The evaluation has the aim of:1. Assessing the impact of DP-funded projects in Afghanistan and Somalia implemented by DK-based Afghan and Somali diaspora organisations, with a view to reassess.

Italy, Senegal

Within the project “Associations de migrants, gouvernance et biens publics locaux dans les pays d’origine. Le cas des associations maliennes et sénégalaises en France et en Italie (Projet GLAMMS)”, commissioned by IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développment), Paris – France, a study with fieldwork in Italy and Senegal had been undertaken on.

London, United Kingdom

Consultant for Policy and Research Division, Financial Sector team at DFID (Department for International Development of the UK government). Co-editing the Migrant Remittances Newsletter, a joint USAID-DFID initiative. http://www.microlinks.org/ev_en.php?ID=13069_201&ID2=DO_TOPICTasks include contributing to and/or coordinating the following:- Establish and.

A research, under the coordination of Prof. Maurzio Ambrosini, to investigate the transnational entrepreneurship of migrants between origin and destination country. The byproduct is a volume "Intraprendere tra due mondi", with a study case on Milano as personal contribute: "Le quattro M: mobilità e meccanismi di merci e mercati".

Within the European Research Project “PEMINT: The Political Economy of Migration in an Integrating Europe” - 5th Framework Program, the research team studied the recruitment of migrant workers through its outcomes in 6 EU countries in terms of labour mobility and international migration under the impact of different welfare provisions, fiscal systems, and.

Phd - Mention Of Excellence, Economic Sociology - Migration

Activities and Societies: Department of Sociology and Social Research European Doctorate in Local and Urban Studies. Thesis "Patterns of.

Exchange Student + Independent Thesis, Departement Of Sociology And Social Research

Independent thesis under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Monti on "Italian americans in Boston - the ethnic construction of young italian.

Laurea Cum Laude, Sociology

Independent thesis project @ Boston University - throught a University Grant under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Monti, Dep. of.

Erasmus Exchange Program, Sociology

Phd Exchange, Economic Sociology - Migration

Phd research fieldwork.

Summer School

Activities and Societies: School of urban planning. “Urban recognition and regeneration”, Orebiæ-Korèula, Croatia.

Summer School, Assistant Professor

Activities and Societies: International Federation for Housing and Planning – Urban Planning and Design School at the Centre for Urban and.

Summer School, Urban - Visual Sociology

Activities and Societies: Summer School “Urban change in a Network Society”. Publication of a paper “Urban Governance: A case of local.